Question

In 1986, the U.S. government passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) to both protect communities from hazardous waste emergencies and also to provide information about hazards in those communities. In this exercise, you will gather data about two counties: Gwinnett County and Bartow County. Please conduct research in the following areas:

1: Choose 3 census data categories (e.g. median household income) of interest to EJ researchers. Identify the 2018 census data for those 3 categories for each county. (15 points)

Census data category	Gwinett	Bartow

Answer 1

Comparability:

The questions were asked according to the ACS guidelines. Data are collected regarding computer and internet use in the continuous population survey since 1984 ACS and CPS avoid including quarters people. Both ACS and CPS data are not comparable. Because CPS asked question at personal level. Many Question used in the CPS are changed over the course of year.

Sources and accuracy:

Over a year 3. 5 million people were asked to respond to question, based on American community survey and Puerto rico community survey and emphasis on average value e of person, household and house hold unit characteristic. Measures of sampling error were measured for all estimates which comprises of ACS and PRCS published products.

MARGIN OF ERROR:

In order to contract estimate, margin of error were used in ACS. By adding margin to the total estimate forms upper bound interval formed. By subtracting margin error from the total estimate, lower bound is formed.

21.3%-0.7 =20.6 causes lower bound estimate

21.3%+0.7= 22.0% causes upper estimate

DATA CATEGORIES	GWINETT COUNTRY	BARTOW COUNTRY
FAMILY AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
HOUSHOLDS	288,724	6534
PERSON PER HOUSEHOLD	3.11	2.83
LIVING IN A SAME IN A YEAR	87.6%	86.1
LANGAUAGE SPOKEN OTHER THAN ENGLISH	34.7%	16.4%
INCOME AND POVERTY
MEDIAN HOUSE HOLD INCOME	$67,769	$46850
PERCAPITAL INCOME IN PAST 12 MONTHS	$29,474	$22,004
PERSONS IN POVERTY	9.2%	17.2%
HEALTH
WITH A DISABILITY UNDER AGE 65 YEARS	4.8%	11.3%
PERSONS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE UNDER AGE	63%	11.4%
TRANSPORTATION
MEAN TRAVEL TO WORK WORKERS AGE 16 YEARS	34	20.9
ECONOMY
IN CVILAIN POPULATION FORCE , THE TOTAL PERCENT OF POPULATION AGE 16 YEARS	69.1%	58.6%
IN CIVILAIAN FORCE, THE FEMALE , TOTAL PERCENT OF POPULATION S   AGE 16 YEARS	63%	52.4%
Computer and internet use
House hold with a computer	95.2%	80.1%
House hold with a brand band connection	87.5%	60.2%
education
High school graduate population age 25 years	87.7%	89.1%
Bachelors degree higher	36.1%	21.6%